Electrical Designer: CAD, Controls & Industrial Systems

Columbus McKinnon EMEA; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbus McKinnon is seeking an Electrical Designer to organize documents and create drawings for orders, ensuring timely and accurate manufacturing in line with company policies. The role involves BOM creation, resolving engineering issues, and ensuring safety and code compliance across fabrication, assembly and service.

The candidate will collaborate with production, purchasing, sales and vendors, maintain CAD libraries, and contribute to cost-effective design improvements while training

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required.
• 1+ year experience with electrical systems or manufacturing.
• Experience with CAD Electrical preferred.
• Familiarity with industrial controls and material handling products.

Responsibilities

• Prepare moderately complex to complex designs including layouts, drawings and designs for the Material Handling products customer specifications, sales quotes and customer’s purchase orders, ensuring the most cost effective and accurate results.
• Create drawings from written and verbal specifications.
• Complete project responsibilities within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Create bills of materials that include control enclosure, components, and wire.
• Resolve any engineering issues as they arise in fabrication, assembly, and service.
• Observe safety procedures and meet electrical codes.
• Perform the second check of control order designs and approve the drawings before final release by the supervisor.
• Act as a technical resource to production, customers, purchasing, sales/application engineering and vendors to address and resolve issues, inquiries and problems regarding control orders.
• May be required to create and maintain CAD libraries for components used in the design process.
• Assist in training electrical designers in the most cost effective methods and procedures that meet quality standards while reducing costs.
• Assist with implementing procedures and design standards.
• Assist in the review and on-going, continuous improvement of design system standards.
• Participate on cross-functional teams to ensure the continuous, on-going improvement of processes, methods, productivity and quality, while reducing costs.
• Maintain technical competency and remain current in technology and changes in the industry.
• Complete special projects as assigned.

Skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

CAD software

Microsoft Office

Strong technical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Associate degree or technical school coursework

Tools

CAD Electrical

CAD

Job description

Columbus McKinnon is seeking an Electrical Designer to organize documents and create drawings for orders, ensuring timely and accurate manufacturing in line with company policies. The role involves BOM creation, resolving engineering issues, and ensuring safety and code compliance across fabrication, assembly and service.

The candidate will collaborate with production, purchasing, sales and vendors, maintain CAD libraries, and contribute to cost-effective design improvements while training